Decrease and Flagging

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• Flagstones collectively.
  • usage: "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place"
• A walk of flagstones.
  • usage: "the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative"

verb

• Communicate or signal with a flag.
  • synonyms: flag
• Provide with a flag.
  • usage: "Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately"
  • synonyms: flag
• Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness.
  • synonyms: sag, droop, swag, flag
• Decorate with flags.
  • usage: "the building was flagged for the holiday"
  • synonyms: flag
• Become less intense.
  • synonyms: ease up, ease off, slacken off, flag

adjective

• Weak from exhaustion.
  • synonyms: drooping

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Flag.
• (a.) Growing languid, weak or spiritless; weakening; delaying.
• (n.) A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.